Télébec
Telebec is a telephone company located in the province of Quebec in Canada. It serves various sectors like the James Bay territory area, the Abitibi-Témiscamingue area, parts of the Outaouais region, and central Quebec.
The name Télébec originated with the first telephone company to operate a municipal system in the town of Bécancour, "Téléphone Bécancour", which was founded in 1965 by a group of businessmen. Three years later, Télébec merged with seven other phone companies: Téléphone Princeville ltée, Télécommunication Richelieu ltée, Téléphone de Contrecoeur ltée, Compagnie de Téléphone La Tuque ltée, Télécommunications de l'Est ltée, Compagnie de Téléphone Arthabaska ltée, and Compagnie de Téléphone Pontiac ltée.
Other telephones companies were merged with Telebec and some of them were sold to Telebec over the years.
With the merger of Quebec Tel into TELUS, Telebec became one of the rare surviving "provincial" phone companies in private hands, the others being Canada-wide giants like Bell Canada.